To become an expert at Texas No-Limit Holdem, you must balance many concepts that at occasionally might contradict each other. Since the first edition of this book in 1988, the authors have added over 100 pages of new material, including extensive sections on “loose games,” and “short-handed games.” Anyone who studies this text, is well disciplined, and gets the proper experience should become a significant winner. Some of the other ideas discussed include play on the first two cards, semi-bluffing, the free card, inducing bluffs, staying with a draw, playing when a pair flops, playing trash hands, desperation bets, playing in wild games, reading hands, and psychology.

To achieve mastery of poker requires a great deal of deep thinking. This book has a unique approach by providing a clear framework with which to analyse the game. Will Tipton demonstrates how decision trees can be used to model complex poker decisions. Starting with simple preflop-only situations, he moves on to consider deeper concepts such as balance, the analysis of ranges, and the theory behind optimal bet sizing. A deep understanding of the game is crucial for the modern poker player. The book helps you to identify and exploit opponents’ tendencies and gives you a clear explanation of the practical application of theoretical ideas. You learn how to develop your intuition about game theory so that you can apply its lessons directly at the tables.

The story of how a few frat brothers from Montana turned a weekly poker game into one of the most lucrative online companies in history is based on extensive insider interviews. You will learn about their operations in the jungle of Costa Rica where its founders lived an outrageous lifestyle of girls, parties, and money. The book also covers the gray area of U.S. and international law in which they created an industry.

Ben’s insights are based on facts and figures, not just gut feel. Postflop is a ground-breaking poker book devoted to the subject of postflop play. It is written in a simple and easy to follow writing style. Over 100 sample hands ensure thatboth intermediate and advanced players can improve their style of playing. It offers practical and useful insights, backed up by hard data that can be taken by anyone and applied at the tables. This book will improve your game, change the way you think about hands and increase your confidence in your postflop decision making. It introduces the 12 postflop dimensions and the 6 postflop decision scenarios, providing you with a logical structure for your postflop decision-making. 21 chapters, cover every situation, from how to play a set on a wet board to playing an underpair on a paired board.

Elements of Poker reveals a new world of profitability for your poker bankroll. You know tilt costs you money, but do you know how to make it go away? You know position is important, but do you know how to cash in that knowledge? Elements of Poker will teach you all of this. Tommy Angelo uses fresh perspectives, humor, and deep insight to help poker players to improve their game.

You learn how consistently win poker tournaments. The authors are not only consistent winners but influential teachers as well. Step-by-step, they reveal their decision-making processes, using hands drawn from the actual play, not examples contrived to fit a particular poker theory. Reading this book is like attending a master class in tournament poker. You will see the way pros use their wisdom and incredibly extensive experience to analyze almost every poker situation imaginable. Deep-stacked or short-stacked, against single or multiple opponents. You will learn the skills to make you a winner such as when and how to play aggressively or tightly when to make moves, when to make continuation bets and when to hold back. Further how to induce and pick off a bluff, show to accumulate chips without always risking your tournament life.

When you have put in the time and built up your stack, playing smart is more crucial than ever. Volume 2 shows you how to crush the final table. When deep in a tournament, the ability to analyze opponents’ play is more than an advantage it’s a necessity. In this follow-up, you walk through key hands of actual tournaments: what they did right, what they did wrong, and what you need to do to win. You learn how to use the changing dynamic of stack size to your advantage as the field narrows, the unique strategies and tactics of Final Table play and how to dominate weak players and outthink strong players. Know how to take maximum advantage of your table image to confuse your competition . Utilize hand selection changes in short-handed and heads-up play. Learn how to keep your cool and make the right moves to enjoy big-money finishes.

Volume III analyzes 50 new hands from major online tournaments. Some of the insights include how to the changing dynamic of stack sizes can impact your decisions and how tournament payout structures affect strategies during Final Table play. You will learn the importance of position and knowing the number of players acting behind you. Train when game theory comes into play and when it doesn’t. Know how different skill levels of opponents can change your own strategies.

Great player know that success in poker is part luck, part math, and part deception. While the math of poker has been refined over the past 20 years, the ability to read other players and keep your own “tells” in check has mostly been learned by trial and error. Joe Navarro is a former FBI agent who is an expert in nonverbal communication. He offers techniques – illustrated with amazing examples from poker pro Phil Hellmuth – that will help you decode and interpret your opponents’ body language while concealing your own. Learn how to become a human lie detector, ready to call every bluff and the most feared player in the room.

Poker is a game of many variables: table position, flop texture, the number of players in a hand, the personalities of your opponents, and much more. This book teaches you how to identify and analyze those variables, interchange them within basic game-situation templates, and become knowledgeable, comfortable, and confident in any poker situation. Instead of dictating a bunch of rules, this book teaches you to become a great poker thinker and strategist so that you can navigate any poker challenge that you encounter. The goal of poker is to make right decisions. Money is simply the way you measure how well you are meeting that objective.